Paladino vows to fight mosque near Ground Zero
Photo credit: AP | A supporter, left, embraces Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, center, after Paladino signed Andy Sullivan's Hard Hat pledge against building an Islamic cultural center near ground zero in New York. (Oct. 27, 2010)
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Flanked by construction workers in hard hats, with Ground Zero as a backdrop, Carl Paladino vowed to use "whatever legal powers" available to a governor to stop an Islamic center from being built nearby, but backed off an earlier pledge to halt the project with eminent domain.
Later last night at the Smithtown Elks Lodge, the Republican gubernatorial nominee held another of a series of "Mad...
